Fiction - Jewish

PRAISE FOR OUT FROM UNDER"A stunning encore . . . a compelling work of fiction."- Joseph Telushkin, best-selling author of Words that Hurt Words that Heal and Jewish Literacy"Contemplative, heartfelt, passionate and diverting . . . . I thoroughly enjoyed every page."- Jeremy Dauber,...

"Salome of the Tenements" is a compelling work of social realism that captures the vibrant and often harsh reality of immigrant life in New York City's Lower East Side during the early twentieth century. The novel centers on Sonya Vrunsky, a passionate and ambitious...

"Bread Givers" is a poignant and powerful novel that captures the struggle of the Jewish immigrant experience in the early 20th century. Set in the teeming tenements of New York City's Lower East Side, the narrative centers on Sara Smolinsky, a young woman determined...

In the insulated Hasidic community of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, tradition and cultural norms are as sacred as religion. Childhood friendships are cultivated to climb social ladders, matchmakers dictate futures, and young girls are primed for marriage and motherhood. So, when Etty Greenberger, a headstrong redhead...

Vienna in 1942 is a city overrun with Nazis, profiteers, and spies. A desperate Nazi officer, under pressure from his superiors, bullies Lichtblau, a banker, also a writer, into handing him over some of the bank's money. He is the object of hatred on...

On an spring afternoon in 1978 in the loft of a church outside Cambridge, England, an organ tuner named Malory loses his virginity to a dyslexic math genius named Louiza. When Louiza disappears, Malory follows her trail to Rome. There, the quest to find...

"Quite definitely addictive . . . a must-read, written with wit and humor and peopled with multidimensional characters. What more could a reader ask for?" --Mary Balogh, New York Times bestselling authorThe phone call Rachel Gold received from a nervous CPA almost seemed routine....

"Rachel's fans will enjoy her latest case, which highlights the consequences of greed as well as the abilities of the disabled." --BooklistAs St. Louis attorney Rachel Gold knows firsthand, the demands of the profession can take a toll on young lawyers. Some turn to...

"Pick it up, but only if you can afford to lose a night's sleep, because you won't be able to put it down." --Steve Martini, author of the Paul Madriani novelsSeveral years have passed since we last saw stunning, savvy attorney Rachel Gold. Now...

Set against the backdrop of Enlightenment Europe, Step by Step dramatizes the early life of Moses Mendelssohn, a Jewish youth whose thirst for knowledge challenges social and religious barriers. The narrative follows his personal and intellectual struggles as he rises from obscurity to become...

The Trust, from Ronald H. Balson, the international bestselling author of Once We Were Brothers, finds private investigator Liam Taggart returning to his childhood home for an uncle's funeral, only to discover his death might not have been natural.When his uncle dies, Liam Taggart...

Brooklyn, 1947: In the midst of a blizzard, in a two-family brownstone, two babies are born, minutes apart. The mothers are sisters by marriage: dutiful, quiet Rose, who wants nothing more than to please her difficult husband; and warm, generous Helen, the exhausted mother...

Explore the complexities of faith and desire in David Pinski's "Temptations," a compelling collection of Jewish short stories. A significant voice in 20th-century Jewish literature, Pinski delves into the heart of cultural identity, exploring the tensions between tradition and modernity. This carefully curated collection...

In this series of short stories, Israel Zangwill gives readers a window into the vibrant and diverse world of the Jewish immigrants living in London's East End during the late 1800s. With humor and pathos, Zangwill captures the struggles and triumphs of a community...

Psychologist Alexander Lescziak savors a life of quiet sophistication on Manhattan's Upper West Side, turning a blind eye to the past of his Polish émigré parents. Then a new patient declares that he is the doctor's half-brother, the product of a union between Lescziak's...

Copper Divide chronicles one woman's story of friendship tested by a society torn apart by an infamous labor strike and the 1913 Italian Hall Disaster.In 1913, a massive and violent copper miners' strike split the once-peaceful community surrounding Calumet, Michigan. Thousands are protesting and...

TANNENBLUT is a literary novel about three friends, a forgotten brand, and the decision to turn heritage into a quiet act of resistance in contemporary Europe. When a fifty-five-year-old financier decides he is tired of "innovation without implementation", he returns to a 19th-century family...

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER "A masterpiece."--NewsweekThe prize-winning first book that instantly established Philip Roth as a major literary voice and as an unflinching, sharp observer of life--especially Jewish lives in postwar America.Goodbye, Columbus follows the relationship between Neil Klugman, a working-class kid from Newark,...

Author: Philip RothISBN-10: 0063499371ISBN-13: 9780063499379Publisher: Mariner Books ClassicsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/26/2026Pages: 400Format: Paperback

"Zuckerman Unbound is masterful, sure in every touch, as clear and economical of line as a crystal vase." --New York Times Book ReviewNow in his mid-thirties, Nathan Zuckerman, a would-be recluse despite his newfound fame as a bestselling author, ventures onto the streets of...

FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE AND THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD"Further evidence that Roth can do practically anything with fiction. His narrative power--the ability to delight the reader simultaneously with the telling and the tale--is superb." --The Washington PostThe Ghost Writer introduces Nathan Zuckerman in...

In the late 18th century, the disgraced, false Polish Jewish Messiah Jacob Frank declared that the true Redeemer for whom Jews (and others) have longed and prayed must be a woman. During his imprisonment in the fortress at Czestochowa, he anointed the first and...

In October 1973, the reality of their seemingly idyllic new home comes into sharp relief as Syrian war planes fly menacingly overhead, signaling the beginning of Israel's next (and most costly) war with its Arab neighbors the Yom Kippur War. The trauma of that...

When Zara Rubens is suddenly widowed, she decides to take control of her life and visit Palestine. Zara creates a new life for herself in nineteenth-century Jerusalem. She becomes acquainted with such legendary figures as British Consul James Finn and his fascinating wife Elizabeth,...

Rabbi Abrams didn't get stoned today.Louis Abrams is a charming, intelligent spiritual leader. He's also a habitual cheater and his loyal wife, Rebecca, a successful businesswoman, has had about enough. She's banished him from their bedroom over suspicion of yet another affair and threatened...

The Journey to Forgiveness delves into family relationships after a death in the family. It is written through the eyes of the younger brother, a middle-aged man who finally confronts the difficult relationships he's had throughout his life with his newly deceased brother and...

Dovid was a poor man down on his luck in a 17th century Polish Jewish world traumatized by the pogroms of the Cossack chieftain Chmielnicki and reeling from the tragedy of the false messiah Sabbatai Zevi. Eking out a meager existence reading psalms for...

"I looked up. Now he was staring at me, looking past that veil between him and the forbidden realm. I saw his eyes. Never had I seen them so close up. They were unusual and beautiful, their color reminding me of the jar of...

Most Jewish-American fiction is centered on Jews from New York City or New Jersey or Boston whose parents all retire to Florida. Wasserman examines the diverse west coast experiences of Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, and especially Los Angeles, all having their own unique Jewish-American...

Eve and Manny are engaged in post-civil war Israel. Eve studies at the Hebrew University for Jewish Renewal, an island of militant secularism in the religiously-run Shalem State, while Manny is an unemployed graduate student with a secret: he is falling in love with...

The Kalinski family, Jewish immigrants from Poland, struggle to settle in London after the Second World War. They long to forget the horrors of Nazi persecution; make a new start.Author: Barbara TowellISBN-10: 1912416611ISBN-13: 9781912416615Publisher: Tsl PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/17/2018Pages: 276Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.73lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w...

All that is needed for evil men to triumph is for good men to do nothing.It Would Have Been Enough, Book 2 of Manny's War & Peace, is a novel combining truth with fiction about people living through a brutal war where normal human...

All that is needed for evil men to triumph is for good men to do nothing.One Only Kid, Book 1 of Manny's War & Peace, is a novel combining truth with fiction about people living through a brutal war where normal human beings can...

Visionary poet and archeologist Hugh Fox excavates the fragile human psyche and its need for spiritual belonging in his novel Depths and Dragons. The reader will be swept along on a cosmopolitan excursion that skirts variant cultural scapes and languages as it lurches toward...

Melba's Wash is a rich telling of the archetypal search. In this fractured familial story, Esther Prat wraps her fingers with her diamond necklace and reflects on the secrets, lies, and pain that haunt her life, and makes her choice. Born on Grand Manan...

This book contains two sections. The first part is a movie script based on the legend of David and Goliath. The second part is the story of writing of this script by a Russian-Jewish immigrant living in New York City.Author: Leonid ZonshaynISBN-10: 1698185111ISBN-13: 9781698185118Publisher:...

Theodore Karpstein was born in the shadow of World War II and was not allowed to move out of that shadow. His family filled his mind with stories of death and destruction that cover a century or more of their own history and that...

Confident at work but clueless at love, Claire is 40 and overweight - not a recipe she imagines can solve the romance gap. Dealing with her father's death and an angry teen doesn't make it easier. Finding no help from her ex, who is...

Enrico Castelnuovo's The Moncalvos was originally published in 1908 in Italian. This is the first English translation of this famous novelist's most controversial title. Set at the turn of the 20th century, 50 years after Garibaldi's revolution and the unification of Italy, the Jewish...

AMAZING...PROVOCATIVE...ILLUMINATING...These remarkable stories, written in sparkling prose, are based on the author's many years as a Rabbi and educator. They portray the beauty of Judaism and Jewish life while exposing some of its major challenges and grievous shortcomings. Through fascinating tales, the author crafts...

A Priceless Treasure with a Mysterious Past... Boston attorney Theodore Murphy, Teddy to his friends, has been handed a seemingly straightforward case: to recover a valuable painting by Franz Winterhalter, Young Girl Called Princess Charlotte, which was stolen by the Nazis from Jewish art...

A Holocaust survivor who vowed never to again be a victim, finds opportunities for justice and revenge.Diamonds, Demons and Destiny is the story of an emotionally scarred Holocaust survivor, who sets out seeking his fortune with the diamond strike in West Africa in the...

In flight from flaccid early 1960's England, flaky Kate Speed lands up in Jerusalem. The child and grandchild of Jewish communists, she knows that her place is always on the opposing side. This does not sit comfortably with her life in Israel after the...

These stories describe aspects of Jewish life in Brantford from the 1940's; they are centred on fictional characters and events. Although 'small town', or shtetl communities like Brantford have faded away, the memory of them continues to fascinate and inspire some of those fortunate...

Experience the poignant realities of Jewish ghetto life in Israel Zangwill's "Ghetto Tragedies," a collection of short stories that vividly portrays the struggles and resilience of a community facing adversity. Zangwill, a master storyteller, delves into complex social issues with compassion and unflinching honesty....

Hall Caine's "The Scapegoat" transports readers to the heart of Morocco, exploring the intricate dynamics within its Jewish community. This powerful work of historical fiction delves into themes of identity, faith, and the heavy burden of communal responsibility. As a cornerstone of religious fiction,...

The Holocaust-six million Jews murdered. Then the war is over, a remnant is saved, and all drift back into the normal world. But for those who survived and their children, it is never over. Duvid's sons, Simon and his twin brother Adam, born in...

In the war torn Europe of 1940, people see the Jews; their shops, smashed and looted, their homes, overrun, their synagogues, vandalized. But who sees the children? No one. Because they're hiding. Five young people, with backgrounds from all around the continent find each...

The Jews is an anti-historical thriller in the form of a Talmudic tragicomedy, taking place sometime during the Second World War. Stalin and his Minister of Security Beria are worried about the political developments in Germany, where Martin Heidegger has replaced Adolf Hitler as...

Author: Karen MulvahillISBN-13: 9798994305126Publisher: Bardowl Arts LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/02/2026Pages: 258Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.99lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.75d